Quotes with self-activity

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  • Jean-Luc Godard Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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  • Jeanette Winterson Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Bobby Ray Inman As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
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  • Bhagavad Gita As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bhagavad Gita As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bing Gordon As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Burgess Owens At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Swami Ramdas Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome - all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Be that self which one truly is.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Carolyn Murphy Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Dedman Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brendon Burchard Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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